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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
How it too often is for women today: a telling piece from today's Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/29/chatshow-saoirse-ronan-graham-norton-women
As a comment, I don't think the following can be bettered (originally from a Financial Times book review about 40 years ago):
" …. throws a bucketful of icy reality, scepticism and sheer anger on the warm and cosy assumptions encouraged by television''
Economic terrorism is what we have had in this country. Coupled with a pretty raw form of eugenics.
How much of this violence are you going to put with from the state?
In other words, the field is wide open.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/532251/2023-election-study-what-voters-really-wanted-and-why-the-coalition-s-mandate-could-be-fragile
An erudite exposition of deep state theory from the Trotter:
Trumpism isn't rampant here yet. I'd even go so far as to observe that in sleepy hobbitsville, the denizens of the ecosystem are too lethargic to get that roused.
I wouldn't get too excited if I were you, Chris. Prebs can bark at them till he goes hoarse, it won't make an iota of difference. He'll be as forceful as a zephyr, an ephemeral touch of a passing feather duster, or Hipkins. They may ask where he left his mojo.
It's usually referred to as a swinging pendulum. Metaphor. I agree that Nat/Lab voters are likely to be confused by it though – addiction to normalcy often disorients folk when the world changes around them.
On science writing, indigenous science, and a colonial worldview.
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After Tokitae, a beloved orca at the Miami Seaquarium, died in 2023—just as caregivers were preparing to return her to her natal waters near Puget Sound—a wave of outlets published stories about orca conservation, including efforts by the Lummi Nation, an Indigenous group in the Pacific Northwest.
B. “Toastie” Oaster, an Indigenous-affairs reporter at High Country News and a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, read in one feature that members of the Lummi Nation consider orcas to be “sacred relatives of their tribe.” The phrasing stuck out to Oaster like a sore thumb: “Orcas are scientifically verified as being our relatives,” they say. “Why word that in a way that’s making it this mystical Indian thing?”
For Oaster, the phrase exemplified how non-Indigenous writers can—through poor framing or word choices—discount Indigenous knowledge and cast Indigenous voices in their articles as “mystical” or “beautiful” others, there to provide color but not to impart any serious knowledge or authority to a story.
Indigenous science—which can be briefly defined as knowledge gathered systematically by Indigenous peoples and shared across generations—is deeply interwoven with ecology, astronomy, and medicine, among other fields often deemed “Western” science. Yet journalists, alongside mainstream scientists, have not historically recognized the value and importance of Indigenous expertise.
https://www.theopennotebook.com/2024/10/29/weaving-indigenous-science-into-reported-stories/